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historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1WHB_devils-golf-course-historical_Furnace-Creek-CA.html
Interbedded salt and water-bearing gravels are more than 1,000 feet thick beneath the Devils Golf Course. Great horizontal forces exerted by crystallizing salt, push these columns upward wind and rain carve them into fantastic shapes.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1J42_borax_Furnace-Creek-CA.html
These panels deal with how borax was mined and refined at the Harmony Borax Works in Death Valley.
Borax
Borates - salt minerals - were deposited in ancient lake beds that uplifted and eroded into the yellow Furnace Creek badlands. Water…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CKY_stephen-tyng-mather_Furnace-Creek-CA.html
He laid the foundation of the National Park Service, defining and establishing the policies under which its areas shall be developed and conserved unimpaired for future generations. There will never come an end to the good that he has done.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HM1CKX_stephen-tyng-mather_Furnace-Creek-CA.html
He laid the foundation of the National Park Service, defining and establishing the policies under which its areas shall be developed and conserved unimpaired for future generations. There will never come an end to the good that he has done.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLT0_white-gold_Furnace-Creek-CA.html
Though steeped in legend, the frenzied searchfor gold and other materials in Death Valley produced few fortunes. Borax, the "WhiteGold of the Desert," ranks as the valley'smost profitable mineral.Harmony Borax works, in front of you, wasone of Dea…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLFO_20-mule-team-wagon-train_Furnace-Creek-CA.html
Used in hauling borax from Death Valley toMojave, 165 miles - 10 days. The borax weighed24 tons. The entire weight totaled 36½ tons.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLFK_old-dinah_Furnace-Creek-CA.html
Steam tractor and ore wagons introduced at Old Borate to replace the twenty muleteams and replaced in turn by the Borateand Daggett Railroad. The tractor was laterused and abandoned on the Beatty-Keane Wonder Mine in Death Valley.
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLET_furnace-creek-ranch-death-valley_Furnace-Creek-CA.html
Furnace Creek is a spring fed stream flowing into Death Valley. Native Americans lived here centuries prior to its discovery by lost Forty Niners. In 1881, Aaron Winters found borax nearby, and sold his claims and water rights to William Tell Cole…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLBY_old-harmony-borax-works_Furnace-Creek-CA.html
On the marsh near this point borax was discovered in 1881 by Aaron Winters who later sold his holdings to W. T. Coleman of San Francisco. In 1882 Coleman built the Harmony Borax Works and commissioned his superintendent J. W. S. Perry, to design w…
historicalmarkerproject/markers/HMLBS_death-valley-49ers-gateway_Furnace-Creek-CA.html
Through this natural gateway the Death Valley Forty-niners. More than one hundred emigrants from the middle west seeking a shortcut to gold fields of central California, entered Death Valley in December,1849. All suffered from thirst and starvatio…